Overall Green Earthquake in New Zealand on 31 Jul 2026 11:09 UTC

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M 4.5 in New Zealand on 31 Jul 2026 11:09 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1555315
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	55.6 Km
Lat/Lon:	-41.0049 , 174.4771
Event Date:	31 Jul 2026 11:09 UTC 31 Jul 2026 23:09 Local
Exposed Population:	680 thousand in MMI>=III
Inserted at:	31 Jul 2026 12:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000th7q	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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